excursions
Meaning of excursions
- a short journey or trip, especially one taken as a leisure activity.
an excursion to London Zoo
- a deviation from a regular activity or course.
the firm's disastrous excursion into the US electrical market
- a movement of something along a path or through an angle.
large excursions of the hip and knee joint
a gantry controlled the radial and tangential excursion of each detector
late 16th century (in the sense ‘act of running out’, also ‘sortie’ in the phrase alarums and excursions (see alarum): from Latin excursio(n- ), from the verb excurrere ‘run out’, from ex- ‘out’ + currere ‘to run’.
Information about excursions
- It is a name.
- The singular form of excursions is: excursion.
- Languages in which excursions is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of excursions
ex-cur-sions
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- excursions is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
excursions synonyms
Meaning a journey or excursion, especially for pleasure:
Meaning a trip taken for pleasure, especially one lasting a day or less:
Meaning a short excursion or journey made for pleasure:
Meaning a journey undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose, especially that of exploration, research, or war:
Meaning an act of travelling from one place to another:
Meaning a journey for pleasure in which several different places are visited:
Meaning a trip or journey in a car:
Meaning a short excursion made in a car:
Meaning a journey made on a horse, bicycle, or motorcycle, or in a vehicle:
Meaning an extravagant trip or celebration, in particular one enjoyed by a government official at public expense:
Meaning a brief trip in a vehicle for pleasure:
Meaning a hopping movement:
Meaning a ride in a vehicle; a lift:
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